Over 80 MEPs have signed an appeal for the European Commission to secure
the removal of a pig farm at Lety, south Bohemia, built on the site of a
former Romany concentration camp. In a letter to the President of the
European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, its signatories point out that the
Czech Republic failed to resolve the shameful problem in three decades and
action is long overdue. Several Czech governments pledged to remove the pig
farm from Lety, but failed to find money for a buyout. The Sobotka
government recently indicated it was close to finding a solution, but no
details have been released on the progress made. Some 1,300 Czech Romanies
passed through the Lety camp during WWII; over 300 of them died there,
while another 500 were deported to Auschwitz.